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8/6/2010 2:26PM

Chapter Not Yet Closed on Gulf Oil Relief

BP engineers say they're done cementing the throat of the busted well... and now they're just waiting for it to dry. It's one of the last steps of the "static kill." Marianne Rafferty reports. Courtesy Fox News.

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I ... it has done the job in bright news that maybe had been waiting months to hear ... that it's not a sigh of relief just yet with Thad Allen ... this is not the end but it will virtually assure us ... that there will be no chance of oil leaking into the environment ... the next step will involve completing the relief well which is now just one hundred feet and intersecting the blown out well I will declare this well dead once the weaving We've intercepted the analysts and we've assessed ... how much smarter summit we needed to move on to plan until the swell will be until then ... I would do that there's still some skepticism surrounding a federal report this week which said that only about a quarter of the spill ... remains in the golf ... this feeling ... that between that and I prefer that they were the euro was gone researchers will continue to study the water column don't ... sign ... don't go through it ... this has not been approvable by as absoluta predicted the in the open although a new study scientists are debating different strategies on how to use the primary relief well once is operational ... there's still potential for production but they need approval from several agencies that oversee offshore drilling for that to happen ... Mary Anne Rafferty Fox News ... her eye ...